Intermodal Services, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 9 Va. App. 139 - Murphy v. Commonwealth (1989), 19 Va. App. 437 - Logan v. Commonwealth (1994)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Henderson v. Central Tel. Co. of Virginia · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Gill · Virginia Employment Commission v. A. I. M. Corp. · Carmody v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Craig v. Doyle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employer-employee relationship exists if the party for whom the work is to be done has the power to direct the means and methods by which the other does the work. “If the latter is free to adopt such means and methods as he chooses to accomplish the result, he is not an employee but an independent contractor.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person is an employee if he works for wages or a salary and the person who hires him reserves the power to fire him and the power to exercise control over the work to be performed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]hat constitutes an employee is a question of law; but, whether the facts bring a person within the law's designation, is usually a question of fact.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.